The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-04-07
FOOD AND EXERCISE.
AN ATHLETE GIVES SOME RULES
FOR MUSCULAR DEVELOPMENT.


FOR MUSCULAR DEVELOPMENT.
Exercise Should be Avoided Early in the
MOrning-Bad Effects of Training on
an Empty Stomach Weight and
Height.
A reporter asked Professor J. NJ. Latin.
the athlete, about some of the rules fol
muscular Development and the food and
exercise necessary. He said:
"a man must not impose upon his
stomach; it is the boiler, the engine, as it
were, that supplies strength to the body.
People Of bilious Emphatic temperaments
are apt to use drastic medicines to excess
and ruin their constitutions. Once let
the insidiOus use of strong drugs under
mine the health and then nine times out
of ten the system never rallies to its pris
tine condition. Exercise is food, it is
health, it is life. 1 have given my life to
the study of the development of human
strength and endurance.
Chow and when should person eXer-
else to be healthy and not overdo the
thing?'
Exercise should be avoided early in
the morning before breakfast on an empty
stomach. The air is very unwhOlesome
early in the morning, and until the sun
has purified it with it's generous beams
to breathe it freely is in furious. Malarial
and chest diseases are liable to be taken,
hence the imperative necessity of avoiding
early morning exercise. People who are
not professional athletes cannot stand the
fatigue of exercise before break fast, and
it even weakens the regular professional
ones who are ignorant. The system is
weaker when person rises than at any
other period during the day. l well re-
member that l was forced to walk twenty
miles before breakfast when [ began to
train. / came back weak and exhausted
It was wrong and did me more harm than
good. The athlete who trains on an empty
stomach is merely devitalizing himself
The proper way is to rise an hour or SO
after the sun is up, take light breakfast,
and after the meal has been thoroughly
digested then take the exercise. Then
good work can be done without harm.
''There are many points of practice
among oarsmen and other professionals
that are absolutely pernicious. An oars
man when he comes in from practice will
devote few minutes to his boat before
he rubS himself down. He should not
permit himself to cool down before he has
wiped away the refuse matter. The pores
of the skin are open then, but few min
utes rest closes them and the scrub
dOesn It do so much good. 1t is common
sense that is needed more than anything
else. Then another fatal error is the
shock and reaction theory. The young
Oarsman while heated jumps into cold
bath. Coming out to the natural tenn
peratNre of the air there is a shock with
out any reaction. Young Maxwell, a
promising oarsman, killed himself in this
way. He leaped into the water from his
boat, took a cOngestive chill and died in
the hospital The proper way to cool off
a man is the same as that of race horse.
Rub him slowly, cautiously, and in the
mans case use plenty of salt in the water
with which he is spOnged. A pint of salt |
should be used to pail Of water, thor
Oughly dissolved. During the cooling |
process moderate walking should be /
taken under a blanket. There should /
never be sudden change fromSintense /
exercise to perfect rest; the PROCESS /
should be gradual. The great cardinal |
principals of all training are simply com
mon sense and temperance in exercise"
DIET OF ATHLETES.
F'Do all athletes agree upon the subject
of diet?''
''No, for 1 differ materially from my
brother athletes. / deprecate the use of
rare meat. Many suppose it is more
than well cooked meat, but
it is a great mistake, it requires a cast
IRON stomach, one with great tone and
strength, to digest rare meat and the be-
ginner, as q rule, is not able to do it.
Nothing is well digested in the stomach
against which the palate revOlts l can
not eat rare meat unless l spice it up
highly with condiments, and they are
positively impervious to digestion. Meat
should neither be rare nor too well done,
)ut medium that retains it's natural
uices. The rare meat idea has done a
great deal of harm, and the sooner it is
exploded the better. Without physical
-itality the greatest accomplishments
mount to nothing. The American
cholar, as a rule, is a dyspeptic He is a
azor faced, lantern jawed, thin, nervous
nan. The old regimen for the student is
obsolete and almost as fatal as yellow
ever, long morning walks before break
asst, reduction of diet, little sleep and fire.
Iuent cold baths without well supported
yitality. 1t is a wonder how many
tudents live, any way"
SIS there special weight in proportion
o a mans height for him to perform
thletic feats?''
eyes. If a man is feet high he should
Weigh from 103 to 108 pounds to be
thletic in proportion. The proportions
re arranged as follows, and they are ac-
urate unless on account of some abnormal
effects: Height feet 4 inches, weight
rom 119 to 125 pounds; height feet
inches, weight from 1873 to 40 pounds;
eight 3 feet s inches, weight from lao to
80 pounds; height feet 8 inches, weight
rom $50 to 1862 pounds; height feet 10
1ches, weight from 1852 to 172 pounds;
eight feet II inches, weight from 172
D 1872 pounds; height 6 feet, weight from
so to 1872 pounds. 1t will be found the
bOve figures show what the weight of a
IAN should be in good condition accord
lg to the size of his bone, neck, chest,
-rist, ankle and height, and, as rule, if
is measurement does not compare closely
18th these figures, he must be consider
bly, out of proportion. New York Mail
nd Express.